Erica, I have changed the Subject to something which relates to the content.
Firstly can you confirm which you mean the address book or the Location List – I think the latter, and have answered accordingly. Commas!! Ugh!! It has always been my practice to write a location as it is written and not using the so called American 4 field convention which tries to fit locations into this synthetic construction. It is still common in England for houses to have names as well as/instead of using numbers, in fact my ex was brought up on a farm whose location was Farm Name, Town, Derbyshire, England. Note there is no street, simply because there isn’t one, just a track leading up a mountain. Inserting commas instead would imply that there is a street of unknown name. Wrong, there isn’t. For ease of comparison between locations of varying fields set the location to read from right to left – go to View>Master Lists>Locations>Sort. At the bottom right set to read from right to left, click OK to exit, and check the little box next to the Sort Button. I always include the full location, including the house name/number. street, etc. in the long location, and with few exceptions, certainly no more than any other method, it maps correctly. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Erica Portelli Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] ANOTHER short location name question while we are on the subject of the short location name field: During the 1800's in Sydney Australia, there was a strange little phenomena of using a house name as an address, so the Smith family may have given their address as "Keiraville" Jones Street, Glebe or "Keiraville" 6 Jones Street, Glebe or sometimes just "Keiraville" Glebe. It must have been a nightmare for the postman but it appears constantly in death and funeral notices and even in the electoral rolls. I also think that some families may have packed up the house name and taken it with them when they moved! I'm trying out ways of entering this in the address field. So far I've been placing the inverted commas around the house name so they all appear first in my address lists, but I'd also like to be able to sort according to the name of the street. I think I read an earlier post from some one in England who was asking about sorting according to streets so he could see who had been neighbours. I've thought of including the house name in with the house number and placing a comma after the number so I get "Keiraville" 6, Jones Street, Glebe. That way I can sort which relatives were also living in Jones Street (maybe that's why they didn't need numbers, the whole street knew each other!) But for the ones with just house name and no street I would need extra commas. So to get around printing a messy looking address field with lots of commas I thought of using the short form as my 'proper' looking address for when I want to print a report. I'm only experimenting with this so does anyone have any comments on why this would or wouldn't work before I start changing my very long locations list. Thanks, BTW this group is great, I've been using Legacy for several years but have never delved into all the little extras it can do, I've been learning a lot in the short time I've been here. cheers Erica -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
